Improvement in games



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*will* UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE,

JOSEPH BEANDL, 0E NEW Yonk, N. Y.

IMPROVEMENT IN GAMES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 134,125, dated December24, 187:2.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known thatiI, J osEPH BRANDT., of New York, in the county andState of New York, have invented a new and Improved Graine, of which thefollowing is a specificathe ball will lodge the winner of the game.

In the accompanying drawing, Figure I represents a front view of thegame embodying my invention, and Fig. II is a section of the same.

A is the casing, in the lower part of which a deep recessor pocket, D,is made, in which a piston, C, is itted, connected to a rod projectin gthrough the bottom of said casing, and provided with a knob, a, bywhichthe same is operated. Upon the piston C a ball, B, is placed. The upperpart of the case A is dividedinto `compartments E, G, and F. Thecompartments or channels E and G are for thevup-going and return of theball B, and are perfectly free, while the compartments F, which arenumbered, are provided with hinged valves J to close the same andprevent the ball from falling out of the said compartments. Below thesecompartments an inclined plane, H, is arranged to conduct the ball backinto the recess D upon the piston C. P is a pane of glass to cover thefront of the case. `Ihe hinged valves J are operated so as to allow theball B, out of any of the compartments F, to fall upon the inclinedplate H, by means of suitable gearing, (shown in dotted lines in Fig.I,) and situated in a back part, M, of the case.

This gearing is operated by a rod passing through the bottom of thecasing and provided with a knob, d. A spring, m, is connected with thisgearing and causes the valves J to keep closed, except when acted uponthrough pulling the knob (l. When the knob a is pulled the spring n iscompressed, and by relieving the strain upon said knob a the action ofthis spring will force the ball B upward. When thrown too fast it willfollow the periphery of the half-circle of the top of the case A andreturn through the channel G over the inclined plane H to the pocket orrecess D, this counts, ofcourse, nothing. When the spring u is operatedwith skill the ball will pass up the channel E and lodge in one of thecompartments F upon the valve J, and counts then in the game accordingto the number marked over the respective compartments. The knob d isthen pulled and operates, through the gearing which is situated in thepartition M, Fig. II, the valves J, so as to allow thc ball B to fallfrom the compartment into which it has dropped upon the inclined plate Hand return into the recess or pocket D.

I do not claim the piston C, the same or its equivalent having beenpatented by M. Redgrave, May 30, 1871; but

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,is-

The construction of a casing, A, with compartments E, G, and F, hingedvalves J in the compartments F, piston C with spring n, and ball B,arranged substantially in the manner and for the purpose described.

JOSEPH BRANDL.

Witnesses HENRY E. ROEDEB, A. O. ORoNDAL.

